What an adorable, heartwarming, heartfelt, hopeful book! This trio of short stories plus an introduction present aspects of life with dogs (or dogs' lives with humans). One of the authors is a lifelong dog lover, the other came to that later. I so appreciated the comment in the introduction, to the effect that our dogs are never really "gone," but return to us, possibly different in color, gender, breed; I know this from personal experience. I also especially enjoyed the story "The Devil at Christmas," a narrative memory of the experiences of a young rural physician and his wife and new dog in 1939.
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